RE: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Scanners

[shAf]

Bob writes ...
>
> >     Your question would beg another ... "Is your scanner
> capable of a
> >larger gamut than sRGB?"  If not, then your PS working
> color space may
> >as well be sRGB, but you don't lose anything if the scanner embeds
> >sRGB and you subsequently convert to AdobeRGB when you
> open the file
> >(... but you don't gain anything either ...).
>
> I would think you might gain something if you perform tonal
> or color editing in PS:  Might not results of the editing
> operation expand into the larger AdobeRGB gamut?
> ...

        In theory yes ... but the addition gamut would be beyond your
display, and you wouldn't be able to see what you're doing(?)

shAf  :o)